The movement of people in urban communities in an efficient way is the critical transportation problem in Iran, as it is the case anywhere in the world today. There have been numerous studies to identify the problem and ...

The major objectives of the Monitoring and Analysis Program (MAP) should be to: Verify energy and dollar savings of the retrofits; Reduce energy costs by identifying operational and maintenance improvements at facilities ...

This dissertation examines an increasingly common phenomenon in the post-Cold War context, the military coalition. At the heart of the dissertation is thus the question: what explains political leaders’ participation and ...

Texans were shocked when the federal government questioned the state's title to its offshore lands. Only gradually did they realize the magnitude of the threat to their offshore lands. Texans wanted to believe that President ...

When it comes to punishing opponents of the present-day regime, Soviet traditions remain alive and well. So that Russia’s attempt at democracy can be better understood, I will discuss aspects of the Soviet government dating ...

This research investigates the interaction between environmental conservation and management in a protected area and the livelihoods of rural producers set against the political backdrop of an ethnically diverse and ...

Proposed Omkareshwar National Park Complex (ONPC), is a planned park in Madhya Pradesh (central India) that is being designed as a compensatory conservation plan to overcome the loss of wildlife and forest by the construction ...

This study assesses the effect of politics on economic growth in developing societies. In this study I developed and applied an augmented production function model to 69 developing countries with several political variables: ...

In this dissertation, I examine questions of strategic political control through institutional design, government responsiveness to economic insecurity in social context, and opportunistic political control of bureaucratic ...